Rock legend and longtime Type 1 Bret Michaels has appeared a couple JDRF galas in recent years, but now he's kicking that up a notch by exploring how he can work together more with the JDRF. On May 19, Bret came to the JDRF Indiana Promise Gala and...

Do you disclose your diabetes at the workplace? That's the question for the DSMA Blog Carnival in March, and I've recently penned a post at my blog The Diabetic's Corner Booth on that topic There's a specific reason why I handle my diabetes...

In our Diabetes Community, we have a mantra that we often embrace: "Diabetes doesn't define me," is how it goes. But I'm not so sure about that, and actually I am not sure if it's a good or bad thing if I'm defined by diabetes...

Sometimes, even when you see a fellow Person With Diabetes, there isn't time to stop and say hello. That's something that happened to me recently when on my way into work, and a random encounter with a fellow pumper wasn't allowed to materialize...

As part of the Your Voices Project, today's guest-post at The Diabetic's Corner Booth comes from Michael K. Schwab, a 51-year old Type 1 diagnosed almost four decades ago. We had the pleasure of meeting at an Adult D-Meetup in Indianapolis earlier...

This guest-blog comes from someone outside the usual blogging world, but as part of the "Your Voice Project" where non-bloggers are able to share some thoughts about their D-Life. We have Jenna Holt, a 24-year old Type 1 diagnosed about seven...

Newspapers and "the media" make mistakes all the time, particularly when it comes to covering diabetes, and so often our community must be on guard against these errors that fuel myths and misconceptions. But WE have a voice, and it's important...

The news story caught my attention immediately. From one of the daily newspapers in the area I grew up in, the headline to this story was:"Third-grader expelled after playing with blood sugar tester." WTFructose?!?! My mind flashed to a child...

Easter is always full of fun with family, and sometimes you may find some Easter-basket fun along with it! But with all those Peeps, jelly beans, and chocolate eggs, there's some math that we People With Diabetes must endure. Unless, of course, we...

He stood up in the back of the room, one face among many in a crowd of passionate parents and grandparents and spouses and even adults Living With Diabetes. As a Diabetic Dad, this man had experience under his belt. Two children diagnosed decades ago...

Our Diabetes Online Community is a powerful voice, and we're at a time when we all need to do our part in raising our voice to help keep diabetes research moving forward. This is our chance to make sure that what we've achieved in recent years...

As an adult living with Type 1 diabetic, I am not forgotten. Not anymore. Without a doubt, that's the clearest message and feeling I’ve taken away from the incredible experience that was JDRF Government Day 2011. During those four days in Washington...

Lately, I've been asking myself a key question: "What has the JDRF done for me?" Like really, truly through all the years as I heard that a cure is "right around the corner," while continuosly raising money for that cure, yet not...

While the president gave his annual speech on the state of affairs and the political world responded, it seemed only timely and appropriate the State of the Dibetes Union and the political divides we faced each day in our D-Lives. A fellow D-Blogger and...

This post is in response to a pair of diabetes-focused stories in the weekend edition of my local newspaper, the Johnson County Daily Journal. The main story had the headline, " A New Day: Pancreas transplant eliminates Greenwood woman's diabetes...

Many chocolately options exist, but only some are what you may dub "bolus-worthy." Whatever choice you make, beware that you don't fall victim to what's known in the Diabetes Community as the "Cocoa Effect." That could take...

Indiana is the first in the country to have a license plate proclaiming the American Diabetes Message to Stop Diabetes, and the recent Indianapolis Auto Show brought an opportunity to get the word out. My latest blog post over at The Diabetic's Corner...

Yes, you read that correctly. A recent blood test led to this crazy theft of the man's socks, and this may or may not have been related to a Low. Find out the details of this Mystery of the Missing Socks over at today's post on The Diabetic's...

Leading up to Christmas, the question on the mind was whether my visit with Santa Endo-Claus would bring me a nicely-wrapped gift or a lump of coal. My A1C would dictate the result, based on whether I'd show up on either the Naughty or Nice Chart...

Tis the season to celebrate Christmas, and in doing so this year our household has once again embraced the idea of weaving diabetes into our tree decorating. See the D-Tree over at The Diabetic's Corner Booth , and let me know your favorie ornament...

A recent episode of Two and a Half Men had me laughing quite routinely as usual, but there was also a diabetes moment in the show that made me wonder whether some misinformation was being spread - even in a funny way through the humor of Charlie Sheen...

These conversations happen sometimes for People With Diabetes, begging the question: Is it my D, or just regular life peering through the diabetic clouds? Here's one of the latest that played out in my own world . I'd welcome the chance to hear...

As a kid of the 80s reaching that video game age in the early 90s, the Nintendo was truly an early love and came into my home to provide hours of entertainment. One of the games in cluded with this system was Duck Hunt, which many know by the orange plastic...

Sugar and Diet Coke seem to be two staples for those of us in the Diabetes Community, so imagine my shock when two Greedy Vending Machines denied my attempts to obtain these much-needed boosts of sugar and caffeine. Two days, two times of greed. Apparently...

So we have a Type 1 Talk event scheduled for World Diabetes Day on the northside of Indianapolis, with a focus on the Adult Type 1 Community. We've had to change plans a couple times, but then a fire struck on early Thursday and forced us to re-evaluate...